he has 30-some percent of the country behind him, and they basically say screw you to matter what you say. they don t care about russia. he s talking to them all the time. so he says, i m going to negotiate. i want a written set of questions. i mean, it seems to me that s an admission of a low iq or whatever. i have to have them written down, so i can go back and look at the facts with somebody or make up a story. that s right. cops don t let you do that, by the way. when they pick you up, they start interrogating you. they don t wait for you to go let s take a couple of weeks off while you get a lawyer and think about it. and trump could direct his counsel to file a motion with the district court to quash the subpoena. and that could result in litigation that could go up and down in the supreme court and basically trump could try to run out the clock and make it much harder for bob mueller. so i agree with barbara, mueller ultimately holds a lot of the cards. but the president
mainstay? and he always says, it s me. i m the person i turn to for advice. okay. and now we come to the cold, scary part of your book. the fitness question. it seems to me, and i thought about this just a couple of moments, i think it s what most people would come to mind if they re thinking about, what does a president have to be? regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, whatever. presidents have to have three things. they have to have the ability to resort to reasonable judgment, to make a reasonable judgment. they have to be cool under pressure. they can t be going stark when something goes crazy. and they have to recognize this, maybe the most important thing, is that they have to look at the consequence of their acts. they can t be impulsive. if i do this, this is in a checkers game, this is a chess game, this will this, this will this, and that will that, and i better damned well make the right option because those things will happen. does trump have the ability to show reasonabl
well, catch this. former sheriff joe arpaio, remember him, arpaio, the immigration hardliner, of course, and trump hero announced today that he s running for the united states senate in joe arpaio, immigration hard-liner and trump hero, announced he s runninging for the united states senate in arizona, less than five months after president trump pardoned him for criminal contempt after defying a court order related to racial profiling. the sheriff seeking to replace senator jeff flake, who announced he s retiring due to concerns over president trump and the rest of the republican party, also the fear he d lose the primary. in an interview the 85-year-old arpaio said it s time for fresh blood in washington.
of love. and claimed that they were close to a comprehensive immigration reform. well, let s watch him. i feel having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital, because this should be a bipartisan bill. there should be a bill of love, truly. it should be a bill of love. and we can do that. but it also has to be a bill where we re able to secure our borders. we ll do daca and we can certainly start comprehensive immigration reform the following afternoon, okay? we ll take an hour off and then we ll start. i ll take all the heat you want to give me. and i ll take the heat off both the democrats and the republicans. my whole life has been heat. wlell, this show of deal making by the president has come at a convenient time for him who has faced mounting questions about his mental fitness. and his supporters didn t hesitate to take advantage of the positive press. lindsey graham tweeted after the meeting today that this was the most fascinating meeting i ve ever been involved with in
welcome back to hardball. as 2020 buzz continues to swirl around oprah winfrey, the man who could face off with her in two years has this to say about the potential challenge. actually, i think it s three years from now. can you beat oprah, by the way? yeah, i ll beat oprah. oprah would be a lot of fun. i like oprah. i don t think she s going to run. but you can beat her? i don t think she s going to run. actually, it is two years. meanwhile, a number of hollywood s biggest is stars are laining up behind her. one of hollywood s biggest, of course, meryl streep, gave oprah her seal of approval, telling the washington post, i want her to run for president. i don t think she had any intention of declaring, but now she doesn t have a choice. well, oprah best friend, of course, cbs morning host gayle king was asked if winfrey would won. she didn t completely not discount the idea, however, that was this morning. she left the door open for her friend. let s watch. okay, is